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An extensive reading list, Marvin. I believe you have self-described yourself previously as moderate. Your list contains periodicals described as left, moderate to right, financial and trade, and general interest. Do you also mine any periodicals that you consider hard right? If so, please list them also. If not, why not?

JDogger

One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift

I like The Atlantic for its straight forward journalism and willingness to being truly balanced in regards to taking sides. Some of their writers swing left and some right. However, they are on the topics that matter the most with insight.

An extensive reading list, Marvin. I believe you have self-described yourself previously as moderate. Your list contains periodicals described as left, moderate to right, financial and trade, and general interest. Do you also mine any periodicals that you consider hard right? If so, please list them also. If not, why not?

JDogger

Could a hard right magazine gain enough circulation to stay in business????? Even the slightly right have to vary their articles to
be of interest. I have taken a lot of teasers over the years including the Limbaugh Letter, never renewed at the publisher's price.
It's about the only way one has of finding the magazines worthy of reading, & I do like the printed word on paper.

In most cases those of us in the middle mostly do generally agree on the issues, where we disagree is how to fix them. I believe
we are spending too much money we don't have to fix problems that would be better fixed by letting those involved sort them out
on their own. We have created a dependency class & robbed those folks of their pride in doing something on their own. When the
government (meaning us) is subsidizing an industry, such as farming or river shipping, both of whom tout their independence &
talk of their american values, who benefits the most? That is money that would be better served remaining in the pockets of the
taxpayers to spend as they see fit.

What I'm interested in seeing is what others read or listen to or observe to reach the point of view that they espouse on this forum.
I would tell you that the city employees consider me miserly while the taxpayers think I'm OK .

The only thing I would contest is your assessment of "what is normally considered the left". For example, "Mother Jones" is NOT representive of the "normal" left (if there is such a thing). At least not in the circles I travel. I put it out there with the Onion, Michael Moore, et. al., and equate it with Rush on the extreme right.

It's an unfortunate human characteristic that we rush to put everyone in a "cubbyhole". It's part of our need to "figure things out" and doing that quickly is more important than doing it accurately. Most "libs" don't use Mother Jones as a pocket guide.

I agree that we all agree on more things than we disagree. There is a loooong continuum and a thousand points upon which an individual may fall, but in trying to win arguments, we tend to polarize everything. Too bad. And then when the topic changes, everyone moves to a new position on the continuum.

Too much trouble ... I think I'll just continue thinking of you as a right-wing, extremist wacko.

Now you have work to do getting ready for council tonight.

JS

ďDonít wave your phony patriotism in MY face! If you really love America, open your wallet and hire an American kid to build what you buy. Doug Fraser (paraphrased) 1980Real Americans buy American.

Forbes is being sold right now to a Chinese conglomerate . You are a little light on CBC, BBC , foreign language online sites, publications which are especially important re: foreign affairs. Look at all the clowns now pretending to be Ukraine experts? Tomorrow , Cuba by weeks end, Nigeria (our primary source of light crude oil).